Talk:The Drew Carey Show

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Would adding this article to a category called "Historical Shark Jumps" be POV, or would it be indeed encyclopedic to the purpose of providing exemplary cases of television shows jumping the shark to someone researching such a thing?

"Jumping the shark" is very POV and very subjective. Just let the numbers and facts tell the story. Azn Clayjar 15:18, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Trivial Pursuit 2 Cleavland Rocks? 3 NPOV? 4 Wanda Sykes 5 Fix or vandalism? 6 South Park Republican? 7 Wording? 8 Show background 9 Gus' naming contest 10 Looking for help writing an article about the spin-offs and crossovers of this series

[edit] Trivial Pursuit

Wikipedia's bias against Trivia sections is a big load. If the section was renamed "Cultural References," then it becomes perfectly acceptable according to Wikipedia rules. How can the administrators justify that? --M.Neko (talk) 07:59, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cleavland Rocks?

Thier seems to be no mention of the "Cleavland Rocks" theame ssing in this article. It should probobly be mentioned.

I added references to Cleveland Rocks. -- Broken Arms Gordon 17:26, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV?

It seems to me that this article is written in a loving way, and not the proper NPOV way. An example is the phrase "He was a welcome addition to the cast." I'm not sure an encyclopedia should be deciding whom is a "welcome addition" to anything. Adding the NPOV boilderplate.

[edit] Wanda Sykes

I recall Wanda Sykes as a cast memeber on the show for a brief period, but I honestly had stopped watching at that point. She needs to be included as well, if she was a major cast member if only for a season. -- Broken Arms Gordon 17:28, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

• According to the Internet Movie Database, she was only on for three episodes. [1] --Metropolitan90 07:56, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

Also Jenica Bergere, who played sharon is not mentioned in this article. If i had sources i would use it. Nonsane (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 05:03, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fix or vandalism?

This edit changed "Louder" to "Lauder". I known nothing of the topic. Normally, I'd presume something like this was a correction, but the person who did it appears to be a serial vandal. Will someone who knows the topic please have a look? - Jmabel | Talk 14:52, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

I fixed the problem, the correct name of the department store is Winfred-Louder. This is according to the official site of the show. --Nehrams2020 23:57, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] South Park Republican?

When was it revealed on the show that Kate was a "South Park Republican"?

[edit] Wording?

". This series was not the same like many other highly-rated, long-running sitcoms that in order to avoid cancellation, beginning in 2001, ABC quickly signed contracts in order to keep the show fresh, but the show went beyond repair and the network wouldn't allow the show to be released from their contracts."

What does this even mean? The grammar is so bad it's all but unintelligible.

[edit] Show background

Is there really a need to include references to other TV shows in this section? Surely "However, the show further sank in ratings the following season, unlike many other live sitcoms. Even its series finale's ratings were lower than otherwise would have been expected." would suffice?

The latest edit, ie "However, the show further sank in ratings the following season, unlike many live sitcoms whose series finales were behind, M*A*S*H, Cheers, Married... with Children, Mad About You, Home Improvement, Sex and the City, Frasier, and Friends, whose ratings have dominated. Its series finale had low ratings unlike the many sitcoms that had high ratings before, Everybody Loves Raymond, Will & Grace and The King of Queens, which garnered higher ratings" seems disjointed, doesn't make sense and the references to other programs don't really add anything to the article.--AussieLegend 09:55, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

The babble you speak of is the work of User:Italianlover07, who does that sort of rot all the time and insists on putting it back after you delete it. I have strong suspicions that he's a sockpuppet of another user, but I don't have the patience to go through the 15-step process to report him since it won't do a bit of good anyway. Lambertman 12:35, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gus' naming contest

How about mentioning that Gus was named during a viewer contest?

[edit] Looking for help writing an article about the spin-offs and crossovers of this series

I am writing an article about all of the series which are in the same shared reality as this one through spin-offs and crossovers. I could use a little help expanding the article since it is currently extremely dense and a bit jumbled with some sentence structures being extremely repetitive. I would like to be able to put this article into article space soon. Any and all help in writing the article would be appreciated, even a comment or two on the talk page would help. Please give it a read through, also please do not comment here since I do not have all of the series on my watch list. - LA @ 16:36, 16 March 2008 (UTC)